The Relative Success of IFRS Adopted African Countries to Attract Foreign Investment

Oberholzer, Merwe; Omotoso, Matthew Olubayo; Schutte, Danie; Buys, Pieter

doi:10.2478/subboec-2022-0004

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“…Ndikumana and Sarr's ( 2019) study used capital flight as the dependent variable and FDI as the exploratory independent variable (not shown in Table 2). The study by Oberholzer et al (2022) used two data envelopment analysis models. The variables indicated in Table 2 were used as input variables to determine how efficiently they raise FDI and FPI.…”

Section: Foreign Investment Risk Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Foreign Investment Destination Risk Framework: Evaluating the Southern African Development Community Member States

Oberholzer,

Buys

2023

Folia Oeconomica

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Potential investment risks need to be understood by an investor organisation, which implies that a host country’s environment plays a significant role in attracting foreign investment. This paper’s purpose was to propose a foreign investment risk conceptual framework to serve as a basis for evaluating the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States’ investment risk/attractiveness. Firstly, the most appropriate foreign investment risk indicators from the literature were identified to develop a foreign investment risk framework. Ten recent peer reviewed studies were used to identify the factors which drive investment risk in emerging markets. We developed a conceptual framework including 16 investment risk indicators grouped into four sections: (i) the business environment, (ii) related taxes on business operations, (iii) the economic environment, and (iv) the human and social environments. Secondly, a comparative analysis of the 16 SADC countries was performed, enabling the ranking of the countries in quadrants of investment risk/attractiveness. Data were downloaded from theGlobalEconomy.com (2022) website for six years, from 2015 to 2020. The literature suggests many investment risk indicators which are grouped differently by researchers to form a conceptual framework to evaluate investment risk. This study’s contribution is that the most popular/prevalent risk indicators were identified to develop the new proposed framework. Furthermore, evaluating the SADC region may also serve as an example of investment risk/attractiveness assessment of emerging markets or least developed countries. The practical implication of this paper is that the proposed framework enables transferability since potential investors may connect the fundamentals of this study with their own investigation.

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Section: Foreign Investment Risk Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%